Category: Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Bay Street Video (1172 Bay Street, just south of Bloor) is one of the best damned video stores/rental shops in Accordion City.

Not only does it have a great selection of videos — many of which

you’ll never find at your local Blockbuster — but the staff are free

to make their own comments about their library:

(And yeah, while most reasonable high school nerds

deplore the acts of those two yobs at Columbine, you’d be hard pressed

to find one of us who didn’t fantasize about visting some high-velocity lead retribution on their jock tormentors.)

It must be spring. When it starts getting warm, people hit the sidewalks of Accordion City more often and my bike trips to and from work become like the opening scene from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure,

with me biking down the street to or from work and a near-perfect

guarantee that at least one person will wave “Hey, Joey!” or “Yo,

Accordion Guy!” en route.

For no other reason that to celebrate the fact that it’s highly

unlikely that we’re going to see snow for many months, here’s a photo

of my trusty bike, The Scorpion King, after the last serious snowstorm hit town in March:

While running around picking up items for our mother’s day dinner,

I noticed that many of the ubiquitous Queen Street West posters were

covered with little mini-posters that read “I love you Mom!”:

An “I Love You Mom” mini-poster. Click the photo to see a slideshow of my photos of these mini-posters.

I didn’t get as many pictures of these as I wanted, but I got four good

ones and put them into this photo gallery [click here for a slideshow].

Whoever did this, I salute you with a filet mignon on a flaming sword!